Morning journal and courier., 1887-05-18
PRINCE ESTERHAZY,S STORIES They Are About His Remarkable Sue
 cess fin India Shooting Tigers.

From the San Francisco Examiner.J Standing in the court at the Palace Hotel last night and listening to the music of the band, the celebrated Austrian prince, Louis Esterhazy, as he smoked his cigar told re- porter of some remarkable personal adven- lures in tiger hunting in the jungles of h. dia.
 s'It was in 'S6," said the royal Hungarian, ''that set off entirely alone to enjoy this sport. By saying alone do not mean that, but had with me no Europeans, nobody but native Indian hunters, who are there called shikaraes. They are very skillful ti- ger hunters and know where they may soon est be found. I went far into the interior of central India, away from even the remotest outposts of civilization, and right into the jungles where the fercest of them were. I was connected in an important way with the Austrian government, but on account of the fascination of the sport, fraught as it was with unusual danger, chose to go entirely unattended by any but the shikaraes.
 "Tiger hunting in India is best carried on by batting with cattle, so took @ drove of forty head with me. A band of some thirty of the natives were started three weeks in advance to seek out the best hunting grounds, and wherever good spot was found one of the shikaraes dropped out with certain number of the cattle to await my coming In this way I was enabled to hunt in the widest sections. The cattle were tied one by one to trees in the jungle in the margin of circle sometimes as much as five miles across. They were placed there at night. The tigers came forth at night to seek their prey, and finding the cattle, leaped upon, killed and devoured as much as they cared to and went their way. Much of this coun- try is low and wet and the tigers could easily be tracked in the soft soil by the expert na- tive Indians. Following the tracks each successive morning after halting we would come upon and shoot them.
 "In this way in eleven months, with but single gun, I myself killed nineteen tigers. This is the best record made in India in eighteen years. I had 8 very big rife, what is known as an eight-ball gun, carrying twelve drachms of powder. With this an expert is able to bring down even the largest tiger easily, and sometimes by single shot. But the sportsman must be as quick as lights ming, for no sooner does one of these wild animals see you, even though he may be sur feited with food, than he will leap for you with all the quickness imaginable, and if you do not make sure work of it you are gone The first two or three times, when undergo ing these experiences, it made me somewhat nervous for fear would not make center shot, but in time I got more confidence. 1 speak now of hunting tigers on foot, as l was doing This is the most dangerous way, but it is more fascinating. I several times went off into the jungle entirely alone, and hunt ing in this way l had number of narrow escapes.
 con one occasion was tracking tiger, and was raising my gun to shoot, having come upon it suddenly, when I was startled by the deep growl and rapid tread of anoth- efacoming upon me. was so hard pressed that, after shooting one, I had to flee for my life, and only just escaped by climbing tree. In the eleven months I many times slept out alone in dismal jungle, with only I underwent many such an experience so far as exposure is concerned, as your American trapper and miner did in earlier and more dangerous days.
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